Yanta District belongs to xi, the capital of Shaanxi Province, and is located in the south of Xi. East of Chanhe River, connected with Baqiao District; The northwest corner borders weiyang district; West and south are adjacent to Chang 'an District; The north and south are bounded by the Second Ring Road, Gong Jian Road and Xianning Road, adjacent to Lianhu, Beilin and Xincheng District, with a total area of 152 square kilometers.
Yanta District is a tourist area of science, education and culture, with 39 universities, 55 provincial scientific research institutes and more than 6,543.8+0.4 million professional and technical personnel. There are many places of interest, such as the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Daxingshan Temple, Qinglong Temple and Shaanxi History Museum.
Expand the natural history of Yanta District;
1, Qingliu II
Qingliu Temple is the ancestral home of Japanese tantric Buddhism. From the early to the middle of the ninth century, Japan sent a large number of learned monks and invited beneficial monks to seek dharma in the Tang Dynasty. Six of the famous "Eight Masters" in the Tang Dynasty were trained in Qingyuan Temple, and Konghai monk was one of them.
In order to remember the historical pioneers, since 198 1, China and Japan have built the sea and air monument, Huiguo sea and air memorial hall and Qingliu Temple Garden on the site. 1996, Qingliu Temple site was announced by the State Council as a national key cultural relics protection unit.
2. Big Wild Goose Pagoda
The Wild Goose Pagoda is located in Tzu Chi in the south of Xi. The name of this pagoda is recorded in the biography of Master Sanzang of Gyangji: there is a monk temple in Mojeto, and one day a wild goose broke away from the community and fell to the ground. Monks believe that this wild goose is the incarnation of Bodhisattva and decided to build a tower for the wild goose, so it is also called the Wild Goose Pagoda, also known as the Wild Goose Pagoda.
When the Big Wild Goose Pagoda was first built, it was a five-story square tower with brick surface and core. Later, it was changed to a seven-story square pavilion, and it was changed to a ten-story pavilion in the Tang Dynasty. In the Ming dynasty, the tower was covered with bricks. At present, the tower is 64 meters high, and each floor is made of imitation wood structure. There are exquisite line-carved Buddha statues on the bottom lintel, and the west lintel is the Buddha statue of Amitabha, engraved with a magnificent hall.
There are two stone tablets embedded in the brick niche of the south gate at the bottom of the tower: Preface to Tang Sanzang and Preface to Tang Sanzang, both written by Chu Suiliang, a great calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty. The Wild Goose Pagoda is a famous tourist attraction in the Tang Dynasty, so there are a large number of inscriptions by literati, including more than 200 inscriptions in the Ming and Qing Dynasties alone.
Today, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda is still a landmark building in Xi 'an, an ancient city, and a famous scenic spot at home and abroad. The State Council was promulgated as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units 196 1.